In case you missed it — here's a wrap-up of news from the Unidata Program Center for the month of April, 2013.
April 2013 AWIPS II Update
Unidata is currently evaluating AWIPS II release 13.1.2, which includes a new unified grib decoder to supply both D2D and the National Centers Perspective with gridded data. With this decoder upgrade and the UPC's improved decoding of high-volume NEXRAD3 and CONDUIT feeds, the last major addition to AWIPS II before release is GEMPAK functionality. GEMPAK 7 will be released as an add-on to AWIPS II for the National Centers and the Unidata community.
NetCDF operators (NCO) version 4.3.0
Version 4.3.0 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
2013 Software Training Workshop Coming in July
The Unidata Program Center is pleased to announce its 2013 Software Training Workshop. The workshop features our display and analysis packages GEMPAK (with an introduction to AWIPS-II) and the IDV, data access and management tools, the Local Data Manager (LDM), the Network Common Data Form (netCDF), and the THREDDS Data Server (TDS).
The workshop will be held July 23 - August 8, 2013. Individual courses last from one to four days.
LDM 6.11.4 Released
Version 6.11.4 of the Local Data Manager (LDM) has been released.
Reminder: Unidata's "Motherlode" THREDDS Data Server is being Phased Out
As previously described in this post, the Unidata Program Center's primary THREDDS Data Server (TDS), currently using the domain name "motherlode.ucar.edu" is being phased out in favor of the new domain name "thredds.ucar.edu". The domain name "motherlode.ucar.edu" will not work for TDS access after August 1, 2013.
Please note that this change affects connections to the THREDDS Data Server only. Other services provided by motherlode.ucar.edu will remain in operation until further notice.
The NLDN is turning 30!
Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) began operation in 1983 as a regional network run by the State University of New York at Albany. Since then, the network has expanded to monitor cloud-to-ground lightning activity across the continental United States, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
